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Boost Employee Performance by Improving Your Performance Reviews
It tends to be the case in far too many organizations that employees dread their performance reviews. Often, they feel discouraged or defensive afterward and tend not to see the value and benefits that could come of a well-conducted review. Understanding and preparing for performance reviews as a leader is essential. Performance reviews involve a […]
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The Best Questions to Ask an Employee During a Performance Review
Conducting successful performance reviews requires you to do much more than simply have a one-on-one discussion with your employee. Successful performance reviews require Human Resources to work in conjunction with managers to gain insight into performance. This requires performance reviews to be structured, it can’t just be a free for all conversation. And structure requires […]
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How To Make Employee Performance Reviews More Motivational
Performance reviews should be a source of motivation for employees, but most of the time, they dread their reviews and leave feeling disheartened or defensive. Tackling performance reviews effectively requires some understanding and preparation. There’s a skillset behind developing and delivering the ideal performance review; one that motivates your employees to improve rather than leaves […]
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Check-Ins, One-on-Ones, and Performance Reviews: Answering Your Questions about Frequency
Performance management is something of a balancing act. Managers and other leaders must provide actionable feedback so that employees can change their behavior for the better, but must do so in a way that is both timely yet not overbearing. There’s also the fact that providing such feedback is just one of their responsibilities. What […]
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The Most Important Questions to Ask During a Performance Review
Performance reviews – they’re often the bane of an employee’s existence. They can feel arbitrary, one-sided, even summarily dismissed. They don’t have to be that way, though. When combined with modern performance management techniques, such as regular check-ins and one-one-ones, full-blown performance reviews can once more regain their position as valuable tools that encourage both […]
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Supercharging Your Performance Reviews: What You Need to Know
Chances are good you’ve heard about the death of the annual performance review. Those rumors are greatly exaggerated. What’s really gone away is the “annual” part of the equation. Performance reviews still play crucial roles in helping your employees become their best selves. Of course, there are performance reviews and then there are effective performance […]
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Critical Missteps to Avoid When You Review Performance of Employees
No matter how open your organization’s structure might be, you still have to review performance. That might not take the form of an annual review – it could be regular check-ins and sit-downs with employees. Regardless of the form it takes, though, you must avoid some critical missteps when you review performance. The right steps […]
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How to Create and Implement Continuous Performance Reviews
Managers have tried every strategy in the book to boost performance and motivate employees. When punitive efforts failed, they turned to ratings and rankings. The thinking was that low ratings would shame employees into performing better, or that low rankings would foster a sense of competition with other employees, increasing performance. Neither of those things […]
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The Manager’s Guide to Conducting the Best Possible Performance Review
When was the last time you were excited about giving a performance review? More importantly, when was the last time one of your team members was excited to receive one? Chances are good it was never. That makes sense, particularly if you’ve been stuck in the rut doing annual performance reviews. Changing to check-ins and […]